Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai

Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai (1944-) was Minister of Defense of Ba'athist Iraq from 1995 to 2003, succeeding Ali Hassan al-Majid and preceding Hazim al-Shaalan.

Biography
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai was born in 1944 in Mosul, Iraq, and he joined the Iraqi Army in 1960. al-Tai joined the Iraqi Ba'ath Party and served as a general of the army during the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War, signing the Safwan ceasefire that ended the war on 28 February 1991. al-Tai survived numerous purges and was the highest-ranking general in the army, and in 1995 he was appointed Minister of Defense by Saddam Hussein. In February 2003 he was held under house arrest to prevent a coup by him against Hussein, and on 19 September 2003 he turned himself in to the US 101st Airborne Division. On 24 June 2007, he was sentenced to death, but his execution was never carried out due to disapproval from the president and vice-president.